About journal collection

Where can you find journals?

Journals collection usage terms

How to find a specific journal?

About journal collection

RBI Library journal collection covers all scientific fields represented at the Institute: physics, chemistry, biology, marine and environmental research, biomedicine, computer science and electronics. The collection includes around 1000 titles of print journals (around 60 titles subscribed for the current year), and Institute staff has access to cca 16 000 e-journals.

Every year the Institute finances subscription of a certain number of journals for RBI staff.
Check out subscribed titels for the current year!

RBI staff also has access to e-journals subscribed by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sport for the whole Croatian academic community. Access is provided by the Centre for Online Databases.

Where can you find journals?

The location of "paper" (print) journals depends on the topic they cover:

Physics, mathematics and electronics:
• 1^st wing, basement (archive): volumes up to 1995 (including 1995)
• 1^st wing, 1^st floor (reading room): volumes from 1996

Biology, biomedicine, chemistry and interdisciplinary sciences:
• 3^rd wing, 1^st floor (reading room): volumes up to 1989
• 5^th wing, 1^st floor (reading room): volumes from 1990

Branch library in Rovinj also keeps a part of the journal collection.

E-journals can be accessed from all computers within the Institute (access is regulated via IP range). RBI staff can also accesse-journals from home using the VPN or Proxy server.

There are minor exceptions from the mentioned location list. You can always check a specific journal location in the detailed print journals list (.pdf format) or you can ask the Library staff for help.

Journals collection usage terms

Journal can't be borrowed. You can use them in reading rooms in the library. If you need to photocopy an article, you are free to use a photocopier in every wing.

If you're not a member of RBI staff, you can order article copies via a library in your institution (read more about that topic).

How to find a specific journal?

Having troubles finding a literature you need? We can help you with short instructions:

How to find a specific journal

Find journals in various libraries' catalogues

About book collection

Special book collections

How to find a book?

How to borrow a book from Library collections or to buy a new book?

How to borrow a book from other libraries? - Interlibrary loan

Selected library book catalogues

About book collection

Ruđer Bošković Institute Library book collection covers all scientific fields represented at the Institute. Research work at the Institute begun in 1954 in theoretical, molecular and nuclear physics and electronics. Later on it broadened on chemistry, biology, marine and environmental research, biomedicine, computer science and interdisciplinary research.

We acquire majority of the fond to cover researchers' needs, buying from local and foreign publishers. Part of the fond is a reference collection located in all library locations and it includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, grammars, handbooks and atlases. For library staff literature from the filed of information sciences and libraranship are acquired.

The book collection has around 23 000 items. Their location depends on the topic they cover:
- chemistry and marine and environmental research - building III
- biology and medicine - building V
- mathematics, physics, elecronic - building I
- oceanography, fishery, marine ecology, biology, chemistry and physics; map collection (cca 100 maps of Adriatic and Mediterranean  Sea) - Rovinj branch library

The book collection is also built through personal donations, donation from publishers and different institutions.

Books are primarily here for the Institute staff, but can also be used by other users via their library (interlibrary loan) or in library reading rooms.